GoKawiilEpic Games is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Apple’s latest attempt to challenge two rulings in its long-running legal fight over off-App-Store purchases. Here are the details.
A bit of context
Last month, Apple filed a request with the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to reverse two lower court rulings on the App Store injunction in its long-running legal battle with Epic Games.
One ruling concerns the civil contempt finding that held Apple violated the injunction. Back in 2021, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers told Apple to allow developers to steer users to off-App Store purchases.
Apple, in turn, applied a 27% commission to these transactions, alongside restrictions that included how buttons could look like, and what became known as the “scare screen” that warned users about the dangers of making off-App Store purchases.
In later proceedings challenging Apple’s implementation of the injunction, the company successfully argued that the text in the original injunction didn’t prohibit it from charging a commission on off-App Store purchases. Even so, Apple was unable to overturn the broader civil contempt finding.
The second ruling concerns the scope of the App Store injunction. According to Apple, applying the Epic v. Apple decision to all developers who have apps in the U.S. storefront goes beyond the limits the U.S. Supreme Court set in Trump v. CASA. In this case, the court held that injunctions should generally be tailored to provide relief only to the parties directly involved in the case, rather than to everyone affected by the challenged policy.
In last month’s petition, Apple asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the contempt finding, as well as the scope of the mandatede App Store changes.
Which brings us to today.
Epic Games shoots back at Apple’s request
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